History WesternAnimation / SeisManos

* DisabledLoveInterest: Technically ''both'' Lina and Silencio are this to each other. [[spoiler: It's also revealed that both Lina's missing hand and Silencio's muteness are results of run-ins with El Balde.]]

* LesserOfTwoEvils: The church ran drugs and weapons; but were a hell of a lot less violent than El Balde's cartel and that transformative drug he's peddling.

** Averted with El Balde, who's even bigger than Brister and strong enough to overpower the main trio and survive getting rammed by a truck. [[spoiler: PlayedStraight later on when he fights his mother Alejandra and gets smacked around by her.]]

The series takes many cues from 70s cinema, including blaxploitation cinema and grindhouse films.

''Seis Manos'' is a 2019 Creator/{{Netflix}} martial arts animated series created by Brad Graeber and Álvaro Rodríguez released on October 3, 2019. The series is directed by Willis Bulliner and includes Dan Dominguez as co-writer. ''Seis Manos'' is the first original animated series produced by Creator/VIZMedia as well as the first original property of Powerhouse Animation Studios (the studio behind the ''{{WesternAnimation/Castlevania 2017}}'' animated series), being created and developed completely in-house with animation assistance from Creator/DrMovie.

* ExploitationFilm: The series takes a lot of cues from exploitation films, particularly {{Blaxploitation}} and Mexploitation, particularly on its focus on gore and violence.

* InkSuitActor: Isabela looks remarcably like a buff Aislin Derbez. El Balde and Brister's facial features are also very close to those of Danny Trejo and Mike Colter respectively.

* MusclesAreMeaningless: Much is made of Brister's massive physique during his introduction, but he proves to be nigh-useless [[PaperTiger without a gun.]]

* ShoutOut: Lo is an {{Expy}} of [[Film/KillBill Pai Mei]] in both appearance, mastery of martial arts and the habit to StrokeTheBeard. He is also an [[spoiler:EvilMentor who trains assassins and appears to lead a crime syndicate]].

* BittersweetEnding: Season 1 ends with [[spoiler: El Balde being killed and his men ran out of town. The main cast is alive, but Lina was killed by Lo, who then kidnaps Silencio. However, Isabela and Jesus are on their way to find and rescue while Garcia stays behind in San Simon to care for the orphans. Meanwhile, Brister is falsely arrested by his racist supervisor who is also carrying the soul of El Balde's mother]].

* ImprobableWeaponUser: Jesus manages to defeat several gun-totting goons with a metal wheelbarrow. Isabela kicks ass with an incense burner attached to a chain.

* RealityEnsues: Being an OldMaster, Chiu was capable of dealing some serious blows to the mutated man that would cripple a normal person immediately. Unfortunately the mutated man had an extremely strong HealingFactor and Chiu could only hold him off for so long before becoming exhausted due to his old age, getting him killed.
** Brister's gunshot wound means he's stuck with his right arm in a sling for subsequent episodes.

* TheWorfEffect: Piyojo, a minor character and friend of Jesus, learned a VomitIndiscretionShot Attack and used it successfully against Jesus, and a monsterized dog. It had no effect on El Balde.

* CrapsaccharineWorld: San Simone is an idyllic Mexican town, prosperous and free of crime thanks to [[spoiler:being under the protection of a drug kingpin priest.]]

* BiggerBad: [[spoiler:Sifu Lo]] was TheManBehindTheMan for both the primary villains of the first season, although he admits he was very hands-off and was content to watch them rampage from afar.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: In the first episode Garcia bemoans the fact that no actual crime ever happens in San Simon for her to bust. In the eighth episode, [[spoiler: when almost the entire adult population of San Simon has been killed]], she remembers this wish and beats herself up over it.

* BiggerBad: [[spoiler:Sifu Lo]] was TheManBehindTheMan for both the primary villains of the first season although he admits he was very hands-off and was content to watch them rampage from afar.